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Meta shared that it was working on Edits in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily...

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Apple has started testing Douyin Pay as a new mobile payment service on its China App Store, according to mainland media reports, while purportedly leaked images of the iPhone 17 stirred up discussion on Chinese social media this week. Once tests are completed, Douyin Pay is expected to serve as the fourth payment platform on the mainland App Store, after Ant Group’s Alipay, Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay and state-run China UnionPay, according to reports on Tuesday by online local media IThome...

The global smart glasses market saw shipments more than double in the first half of the year, driven mostly by strong demand for Meta Platforms’ glasses, along with new offerings from rising competitors like China’s Xiaomi, according to an industry report. The 110 per cent year-on-year surge in shipments was fuelled by robust interest in the artificial intelligence glasses segment, which accounted for 78 per cent of total smart frame shipments, according to the report on Tuesday by market...

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Three-time Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder and the Japanese publisher that popularized the puzzle are teaming up with one of the world's biggest social networks.

U.K. rules requiring tech giants to implement age checks to prevent children from accessing porn are causing

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are urging Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to shut down Instagram's new map feature, calling it a risk to child safety.

Meta Platforms Inc. has reportedly acquired WaveForms AI Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models optimized to understand speech.

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready said it will be some time before consumers are ready to let AI agents do their shopping for them ... News, Pinterest, Product...

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A key takeaway from tech earnings was the impact of artificial intelligence on digital advertising. Meta and Alphabet both reported sales and...

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday calling on the company to...

Instagram’s new map feature is causing concern among some users who worry that it will expose their location to others without their consent.

A California jury ruled against Meta in a privacy-related lawsuit involving the alleged collection of sensitive data from Flo, a period-tracking...

Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in...

Finding it hard to concentrate? Are you glued to social media for longer than you’d like? Well, maybe it’s not you… maybe it’s the phones. Brittany is joined by Magdalene Taylor, writer, cultural critic and senior editor at Playboy, and Fio Geiran, producer at TED Radio Hour and a writer of their Body Electric newsletter, to discuss this phrase: “it’s the phones.” They get into the effects that smartphones have on our brains and our culture, why some people are returning to “dumbphones,” and why it might take more than willpower to manage our relationships with our phones.Click here to check out the Body Electric newsletter.

On Monday, Character.AI announced a new “AI-native social feed ... Power On for Apple scoops, consumer tech news and more; Screentime for a...

Pinterest reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday, in which it beat on sales but missed on earnings per share.

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine ... news websites has grown from 56% (when Google launched AI Overviews in...

Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Donald Trump's Truth Social has launched a new AI search feature that...

Meta's huge user base and data access could make it a key player in consumer AI, especially as chatbots get more personalized.

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Why it matters: Some top executives and researchers in AI are moving from companies like Apple and OpenAI to Meta as Facebook's parent company looks...

People all over TikTok and Instagram are using the word "clanker" as a catch-all for robots and AI. Here's a deep dive into the origins of the pejorative and an explanation of why it's spreading.

Snap shares tanked 15% Tuesday when it reported second-quarter earnings in which global average revenue per user missed expectations.

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This time next year, anyone logging onto social media in Minnesota will see a warning that the sites can harm their mental health. Social media companies want to block enforcement of the new law. A law in New York may not be too far behind.

Social media giant Meta Platforms said that its revenue for the past quarter rose 22 percent compared to last year, hitting $47.5 billion.

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